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The UK government has reportedly backed down from its dangerous demand that Apple build encryption backdoors, following pressure from the Trump administration. But the secretive nature of this R ...

The Trump administration has been described as many things, none of them good. What no one will ever accuse it of being is "competent." Trump has surrounded himself with sycophants, mos ...

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Senator Amy Klobuchar is one of the top Democrats in the Senate. She could be fighting to protect democracy against fascists. She could be working on a new, better vision for Americans. But instead ...

I don't mean to harp on this, but a central promise of the Trump administration during the last election season was that a second Trump term would "take aim at big tech," protect ...

If you're tired of Techdirt posts about RFK Jr.'s inability to competently lead HHS, I'm tired of him leading that organization, so too bad. The problem is that RFK Jr. represents ...

During the last year of the Trump administration, there was this weird period where the Bill Barr DOJ decided that it could destroy the internet. It came out of Donald Trump declaring that Section ...

This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. A New York business frozen out of its checking account. A Georgia chemotherapy patient denied a credi ...

Petty thugs. That's all ICE is. Masked officers too cowardly to show their faces and too aware they're in the wrong to dare approach judges with warrant requests. Even ICE's lawye ...